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2018
Taboo is used in many cultures to cement familial and other relationships, not only by observing taboos but by selectively breaking them. Probably the most common form of societally sanctioned taboo-breaking is within what anthropologists call joking relationships—close relationships in which people are expected to show their affinity by behaving to ...
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Taboo is used in many cultures to cement familial and other relationships, not only by observing taboos but by selectively breaking them. Probably the most common form of societally sanctioned taboo-breaking is within what anthropologists call joking relationships—close relationships in which people are expected to show their affinity by behaving to ...
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The taboo topic in Kurdish language
Journal of University of Raparin, 2020The research is entitled (The topic of taboo in Kurdish language), it is an attempt to find the topic of taboo in Kurdish native speakers' mental, in order the most taboo expression to be recognized generally. Consequently, to find taboo and its order in mind, mental lexicon has been applied, which is in relation to being individually or in group has ...
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Language taboos of American college students
English Studies, 1935(1935). Language taboos of American college students. English Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1-6, pp. 81-91.
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Taboo as a driver of language change
2018In this chapter the focus is on taboo and language development. Whether we are looking at the naming restrictions of Polynesia or the social taste constraints of English-speaking communities, taboo areas of the lexicon perpetuate instability. Existing vocabulary is often abandoned as speakers either borrow words or create new expressions; surviving ...
Kate Burridge, Réka Benczes
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Taboo language as source of comedy
2018There are several areas of culture where taboo is encountered including religion and death, and recently it has become taboo to be sexist, racist, homophobic, or critical of physical or mental shortcomings. But there is one taboo area that is pervasive, and one where specific words are subject to strong taboo, and that is sexual activity and excretion,
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Taboo language awareness in early childhood
2018This chapter investigates the emergence of English-speaking children’s taboo lexicon (taboo words, swear words, insults, and offensive words) between one and twelve years of age. It describes how the lexicon of taboo words children use shift over time to become more adult-like by age twelve.
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Taboo In Language And Literature
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